09/11/2013 | Argentina

After a statement by Catholic bishops warning about the “drama of drug trafficking,” Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli said he “shared” the “Church’s concerns” over a problem he called a “scourge.”

14/11/2013 | Argentina

Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli confirmed today that he will be meeting Catholic Bishops on Monday to address concerns about drug-trafficking following increasing demands by social, political and religious sectors to tackle an illegal business that is hitting Argentina.

02/10/2015 | Argentina

23/08/2012 | Argentina

Monsignor José María Arancedo, chairman of the national Episcopate. qualified the rent of womb as "an insult to women's dignity," during the public hearing led by the bicammeral committee for the reform of the Civil and Penal Codes held at Congress.

02/12/2012 | Argentina

National lawmaker for the Victory Front caucus, Carlos Kunkel played down today the document released by the Argentine Episcopate in which it stated Argentine society is in danger of plunging into “new and irreconcilable divisions.”

10/11/2011 | Argentina

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner met with the new president of the Argentine Episcopal Conference (CEA), Monsignor José María Arancedo in the Government House. Arancedo was elected on Tuesday and replaces Buenos Aires archibishop, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio.

18/11/2011 | Argentina

The Catholic Church warned that 10 percent of homes of the Metropolitan area are located in shanty towns and that 24 percent of their inhabitants are poor, thus requested that “the overcoming of poverty, equal opportunities for all and social integration as considered as top priorities in State policies."

27/04/2012 | Argentina

The bishops that form part of the Argentine Episcopal Commission, led by José María Arancedo, commented today on the changes that are to be made to the Civil Code, and stated that the reforms should “guarantee the honouring of life from pregnancy, the value of marriage between men and woman, the family and the protection of children’s rights.

08/09/2015 | World

In a move that again showed his desire for the Church to be more merciful to Catholics in difficulty, Francis reaffirmed traditional teaching on the "indissolubility of marriage," but streamlined annulment procedures many considered cumbersome and expensive.

08/04/2016 | World

27/08/2014 | World

In his weekly general audience in the Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican, Pope Francis called for Christians’ unity and a “one and saint Church.” “Division is one of the most serious sins,” the Argentine pontiff said.

10/06/2014 | World

The Irish government has ordered a comprehensive investigation into the treatment of children at Catholic church homes for unmarried mothers, including accusations of forced adoptions and unusually high mortality rates among children housed there.

16/08/2014 | World

On the third day of his visit to South Korea, Francis celebrated a huge open-air Mass in the center of the capital Seoul, where he denounced the growing gap between the haves and have nots, urging people in affluent societies to listen to "the cry of the poor."

09/02/2014 | World

By James NeilsonThe Roman Catholic Church is a soft target for “human rights” campaigners and others of a progressive disposition who know they are most unlikely to be murdered for giving it a piece of their mind. Luckily for them, in what was once called Christendom blasphemy is no longer a capital offence.

12/03/2014 | World

Francis has raised many hopes of imminent changes in Church teaching that managing expectations is going to be a challenge. The Argentine-born pontiff has caught world attention by suggesting he might ease the Catholic Church's strict rules on divorce, birth control, women priests and gay unions.

13/03/2014 | World

When he was elected a year ago, Pope Francis promised to shake up the bureaucracy of the world's smallest country. He has started at the top - curbing the once-overarching role of the secretary of state.

02/11/2013 | World

The Vatican is asking bishops and parish priests around the world about local views on gay marriage, divorce and birth control ahead of a meeting of bishops next year to discuss Roman Catholic Church teachings related to the family.

13/01/2014 | World

The Argentine pontiff, whom conservatives in the Roman Catholic Church have accused of not speaking out forcefully enough against abortion, has called the practice "horrific" while delivering the his so called "State of the World" address.

15/06/2013 | World

Pope Francis urged a delegation of French lawmakers to avoid following only "fashions and ideas of the moment" when legislating, in an apparent reference to the country's legalization of gay marriage last month.

23/10/2013 | World

Pope Francis has ordered the German Roman Catholic prelate known as the "luxury bishop" for spending some 31 million euros ($42.70 million) on a residence to leave his diocese for an unspecified period, the Vatican said.

21/03/2013 | World

For the first time in its history and following an order by then Pope Benedict XVI to cast light on “any sign” of pedophilia, the Spanish Catholic Church has expelled a pedophile priest who was facing criminal and ecclesiastical charges since 2011.

13/07/2011 | World

A government-sponsored report said today the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Ireland continued to conceal the sexual abuse of children by priests even after it introduced rules in the mid-1990s to protect minors.

02/11/2012 | World

Roman Catholic bishops and conservative politicians are stepping their campaign against French President Francois Hollande's plan to legalise gay marriage days before his government presents its draft law in cabinet.

30/08/2011 | Latin America

Leaders of the dissident group Ladies in White asked the Catholic Church to intervene with the Cuban government to end what they described as violent acts against them and other human rights activists.